In the present text I’m going to analyze the article “Reverend David Railton” of the website “Westminster Abbey” and to decide if it is in favor or condemns war. The article analyzed is an informative text that has the function of explaining how the memorial of the Unknown Soldier was born and who was the first man to proposed this idea. In 1916, David Railton, while he was serving as a chaplain in the British Troops in France, one day noticed a grave with a rough cross on which were written the words 'An Unknown British Soldier'. In August 1920 he wrote to Herbert Ryle, Dean of Westminster, suggesting a permanent memorial to the fallen of the Great War who had no known grave. King George V and the government supported the idea and, in November 1920, an Unknown Soldier was selected to become a symbol of all the fallen of the First World War.Today the Grave of the Unknown Warrior is one of the most famous of the Abbey's memorials.  The sentence “David Railton saw his dream become reality” makes the reader understand that the David Railton strongly believed in his idea and he “fought” to see it realized. The word “dream” conveys the idea of something important long hoped. It is as if it was the dream of all the people that lost someone they loved in war. Indeed rituals have the function of helping people to process and overcome the mourning. Rituals and memorials also make people close to each other, in this way they can easier find a sense in the death of their relatives. The word “permanent”, adjective of the word “memorial” conveys the idea of something the last in time in contrast with the death of the casualties. The writer, in this way, wants underline the function of rites and memorials: create something immortal. Indeed we are immortal only in the memory of us. So, in conclusion, I can affirm that the writer doesn’t directly condemn war, but he celebrates rituals and memorials in function of people that were living a mourning.